A fourth generation of the Hunt family is taking over the HUNT Real Estate Corp., which owns and runs HUNT Real Estate ERA. On Monday, current CEO Peter Hunt announced that his son Charlie Hunt would be taking over the Buffalo, New York-based firm as its new CEO. Charlie Hunt first joined his family’s business […]
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A legal battle over the validity of home equity investments (HEIs) and whether they should be classified as reverse mortgages has come to an end in Washington state. Unison, one of the nation’s leading providers of HEI products, settled the case with plaintiffs Charles and Janine Olson, according to court documents reviewed by HousingWire’s Reverse
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Cypress Loan Servicing has reached a $2 million settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO) over allegations that it violated state foreclosure prevention and consumer protection laws. According to the AGO, Cypress — formerly known as Rushmore Loan Management Services — allegedly put homeowners at unlawful and unnecessary risk of foreclosure by violating Section
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Massachusetts homebuyers will soon be protected from being pressured into waiving home inspections under new regulation. The policy, put forth by the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), prohibits sellers and their agents from requiring or encouraging buyers to waive a home inspection as a condition of purchasing real estate. It also
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As Trump administration officials press ahead with their efforts to dismantle and defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Reserve Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is reportedly opening an investigation into moves to fire the vast majority of CFPB and attempted cancellations of associated federal contracts. According to reporting by CNBC, the
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